The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-09
A MOTHERS LONG SEARCH.
AFTER NINETEEN YEARS SIZE FINDS
AND RECOGNIZES HER SON
betrayed In her Youth she 10 also Robbed
OF her Chtid-Her Lite Devoted to tho
Search that has just Proven Successful,
Prom the Cincinnati Enquir,

Search that has Just Proven Successful,
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mrs. John Steinert Of As Findlay street Ia
to-day Watching every hour that passes until
her f FOR proof that she Is Sis mot6sr ,0o'
tho city q Sovinston, ky, d. family named Esi.
for One Of the d,anghters q tlis family JG1ic
S1S Sns man and % M a s an s with wes
TO be married. But the old story, was told
again. and when sho WAS about to become
and when tho deserted girl mad, recovered. siac,
mother was widow, with Il large family d..
K HSn and sH 1as to Keen q 9s o1
she was taken down With small nal L poS and had
Ifs and death for many. weeks, and ~ last she
returned to her mothers home to lind that her
0G He Md noaiher said that tho burden had been
too great for her, and having, n chance to give
the boy good home. she n, hid given HIN 10 a
sss sSore hs lady WENT the n MS E
young mother for her boy. She was cqldly re;
hands and would be well taken, care of, but she
should never again see him. She was satisfied
hs The as hsf ns x' one Of the
tors to put the child away from her. She reg.
istered a.vow that the object OF her life should
sa% save the hem necessities q life and the using her
e Four Years az after the boy had disappeared
and when he was seven years old. man in
ceyngton asked her 70 become n,r his yie Ito
how she had been betrayed, and how her child
had been stolen from her: Tho man listened
to her story and agreed to let the dead past
but there is another thing" she said to him
S So a9y ny to Se saareS f
search Ss ,n marry ls yonh ts ronv "yon
sorrow your Que s %s mno VIII Join your
In the search and We YIN Ana y .3,9l boy" -
and
met with. At last they found a trace Of tho
child; sister of the man who had betrayed
aunt had taken the baby boy and had given it
to. John Mullen. q brother to the man who had
Sed the sh IT. tina" no
Las, Friday ID m91Sg ,Ssn Wa;sSas
rapidly up the road and when II stopped at his
gate he went ons to hs
to him and, in q voice husky with suppressed
Are YOU not John Mullen?"'
THAT IL my name. madam."
sGs ns sss'f s
O.3S john MSllen fnedded his head armavo
THAT deserted bride became the mother OF
q boy. When he was three years old he was
STOLEN from her while se lay siSk In hp1 Ia
child. and at last she has been rewarded,
am the woman your brother so basely de-
serted, andJ am here to claim my boy, whom
you have brought up in ignorance OF his
This was so astounding to Mr.. Mullen that
he could hardly speak for moment, but he
invited tho two into tho parlor. Mullen did
not talk much, but soon left the room in n rage.
Hanging on the wall Of tho parlor was tho
picture Of baby boy. and on this tho mother
John Mullen tried to deny that the boy was
hers. The boy was brought in. and she asked
him his name, and he replied that 1t was Jesse
Mullen. He said that bis father and mother
69th dead a. I'm sen se II a Mam n e me-
and he replied that he did. and that William
Mullen was his uncle. During all this CONVEX
sation the mother first looked mt n photograph
Of the boy that hung on the wall and then, ut
the boy FINALLY she h said to h 1ntbor B nd Mpen
your mother" And then she burst into tears
and fell on the shoulder of her long: lost boy.
The boy said that he had been told while in
Cincinnati that no WAS only an adopted child.
any reliable source John Mullen had always
he was laid on Mullen's door step when no
lived In Covington. After long compensation
they separated. with the understanding that
to live with his mother John Mullen has
threatened to have the person arrested who
gave Mrs. Steinert her information, but 1t will
evidently end in q threat.
Is a very tough citizen. and has been arrested
in Covington and other PLACES In Kentucky Tor
various crimes. He has also been inside the
walls Of the Frankfort tKy.) penitentiary.